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Chinese manuscripts. Now living in Hangzhou. Youtube: …

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6 months

A short introduction into the world of Chinese variant characters. I think these are one of the coolest things in Chinese manuscripts and inscriptions.

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Chinese character variants

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2 years

Just got this in the mail, and I am already enjoying it!

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3 years

Admin work in hell, juggling multiple documents open at the same time. (P.4523 - Dunhuang, 10th century)

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My student Mia (Ye) Ma just got her PhD. Congratulations, Mia!

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The rabbit on Pelliot tibétain 1147 (Bibliothèque nationale de France)

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First time I see pinyin written from right to left, to match the direction of the Chinese text, which is written this way so it goes from the front of the vehicle towards the back.

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A tiny booklet from Dunhuang with the Thousand Character Text 千字文. It is really tiny, smaller than a credit card.

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Inspired last Saturday by the Chinese calligraphy workshop led by @flavia16113770 , my 13-year-old daughter began practising Tangut calligraphy.

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Just got my copy in the mail of the English translation of Prof. Rong Xinjiang's book. This massive translation project (688 pages) was coordinated by Sally Church. Congratulations!

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Decoding 4-digit numerals into Chinese characters in a telegram from 1937.

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Notes of a Chinese student learning Russian.

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It was incredibly interesting to attend the celebration of Confucius’s 2575th birthday in Quzhou this morning. Quzhou was the place where the southern branch of the Kong clan settled after their move in the early 13th century.

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Just received my copy of Xin Wen's The King's Road from an overenthusiastic mailman, literally banging on the front door. Congratulations to Xin!

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Old habits die hard: glossing the sound (and meaning) of Chinese characters in 20th century Hong Kong and 10 century Dunhuang. @taichungpui

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Bus stop 10 years ago in Beijing, outside Minzu daxue. Feels like an eternity ago...

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A Japanese replica of the 7th century Dunhuang manuscript of the 'Guwen shangshu' 古文尚書, donated to us by a generous donor.

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Looking forward to reading Prof. Hou Xudong’s book which he kindly gave me in Beijing.

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The many hands of Guanyin Aurel Stein, Serindia, v. 4, pl. XCVII.

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This just arrived in the mail, really looking forward to reading it.

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2 years

My new paper is out as BuddhistRoad Paper 4.4! This is about redating Stein painting 3 (British Museum), which has two Avalokiteśvara figures side by side. "Avalokiteśvara and the Longing to Return Home: Stein Painting 3 from Dunhuang"

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Took another quick look at the famous Diamond sutra, printed in 868, on permanent display at the British Library.

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It is wonderful to find a Dunhuang manuscripts exhibition at the Calligraphy Museum in Tokyo. But there are also lots of other things from elsewhere, including oracle bones and Han roof tiles.

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A quiet morning at the University Library in Cambridge.

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11 months

Looking forward to reading this:

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6 months

Another beautiful fragment from the Lüshun Museum. This is from an early copy of the Lotus sutra. Look at the repetition of curved strokes in some characters!

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It was an honour to give one of the memorial lectures at the 13th Joseph Needham Memorial Lecture Series at the Hong Kong Palace Museum today.

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Excited to finally get my copy of this new volume, in which I was honoured to author a chapter. After clearing customs and attempting delivery multiple times, the DHL guys caught me as I was leaving the building.

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Text of the Lotus sutra (Turfan Ch 682) with printed Buddha images in the background. An obvious question is whether the images were printed before or after the text was copied...

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Talking to my ex PhD student Flavia Fang about her research on the cultural history of smell in medieval China.

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End of the Heart sutra in a 10th century codex from Dunhuang.

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I am always amazed to see that in books copied by hand the seals are also copied. It is like an early form of photocopying. They are not trying to fool anyone, but want to include the seal imprints, too.

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My paper on a 10-century Chinese-Uyghur codex is out in a fantastic volume by Michael Clarke and Máire Ní Mhaonaigh. The volume is part of the series Studies in Manuscript Cultures and is entirely Open Source!!! Paper: Volume:

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At the night market in Dunhuang; a picture taken 21 years ago.

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This is the first page of a late Qing or early Republican copy of a primer. Look at the way the character 亦 is written in the first line, and then at the top of the last one.

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Came across a boar on the street in Hong Kong. Wow! I see foxes and deer in cities in the UK but have never seen a boar on the street...

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8 months

IDP is back online, with a new look. Part of this is the new viewer, which looks fresh and exciting. Most importantly, it allows to look at manuscripts easier and more conveniently.

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A page from a 10th-century concertina manuscript with the Guanyin jing 觀音經. Note the dyslexic (or rather dysgraphic) way of writing the word 種種. Dunhuang, Pelliot chinois 3760, BnF.

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Super excited to get this new publication with Joseph Needham’s photographs of wartime China. A massive volume of 860 pages!

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Trying to finish a paper in the reading room of the Library of the Budapest Museum of Technology.

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Interview with Prof. Timothy H. Barrett on the development of Chinese studies in Britain.

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A strange way of writing the word 'dharma' 法. Peald 3c, Princeton East Asian Library.

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Our conference is finally happening!

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I am always amused by these bright red comments on the Dunhuang manuscripts by Aurel Stein's Chinese secretary. They can bleed through the pages and in general are not very informative.

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An overabundance of repetition marks. This is a segment from an early copy of the Lotus sutra, possibly from Turfan, currently kept in the Nakamura Museum of Calligraphy, Taito-ku, Tokyo.

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Modern reproduction of the manuscript bundles from the Dunhuang Library Cave, with Aurel Stein’s photograph of the original pile in the background. Museum of Chinese Go, Hangzhou.

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Laozi in discussion with Confucius on a Han dynasty slab. (From Louis Ligeti's 1933 report)

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It took a while but our book is really out, and it is Open Access: . Congratulation to all contributors!

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A fragment of the from among the Lüshun fragments. I love the visual pattern created by the repeating 'water' component. Like water ripples.

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My introduction to joined graphs (hewen) in medieval Chinese manuscripts.

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Ligatures in medieval Chinese manuscripts

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Amazing calligraphy writing the Jiemo jing 羯磨經, in the collection of the Nakamura Fusetsu Museum of Calligraphy.

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The Hangzhou Mosque early in the morning. This is one of the largest mosques in China.

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2 years

Congratulations to our undergraduate student Joe Beadle who published a paper on the Taiwanese horror videogame Devotion in the British Journal of Chinese Studies!

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Got this in the mail today - a beauty! Brandon Dotson, Constance A. Cook, and Zhao Lu: Dice and Gods on the Silk Road: Chinese Buddhist Dice Divination in Transcultural Context. Brill, 2021.

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Just had a fantastic talk by Prof. Susan Whitfield Dunhuang entitled "Khotan and Barikot: Reconstructing a Buddhist City?” part of our Dunhuang and the Silk Road Seminars.

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My short introduction to Chinese colophons from Dunhuang:

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Colophons in Chinese manuscripts from Dunhuang - Introduction

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Amazing food at lunch near the Palace Museum in Hong Kong, courtesy of the Joseph Needham Foundation. Haven't had Chinese food like this for several years.

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Ten complaints about young people from medieval China (十可惜說). Surprisingly relevant and modern.

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The little girl is still holding on to a textbook with non-simplified Chinese characters.

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A brief introduction to the court-commissioned sutras produced in the Tang capital but found at Dunhuang.

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Buddhist scrolls from the Tang capital - Dunhuang manuscripts

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1 year

It was an honour to be a discussant for James Robson’s wonderful lecture on the Sūtra in Forty-Two Chapters this morning at Wenxueyuan, Zhejiang University. (Photo courtesy of Chen Ruifeng.)

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At the Huxi (Tiger Creek) Temple in Xiamen.

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Got my copy of Prof. Solonin's new book on Chinese Buddhist texts in Tangut. A million thanks!

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Bringing Buddhist manuscripts from India to China - relief from the Feilai Peak at the Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou. Lots of visitors today!

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Amazingly blue sky above the Tangut royal tombs near Yinchuan, Ningxia. Wow!

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Shooting conquest on a silk painting from Dunhuang (second half of 9th century, Guimet EO.1216)

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Just another language.

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Learning CLASSICAL CHINESE efficiently

Learning Classical Chinese is a bit different from learning modern languages, because you cannot find people to talk to. It is a dead language. Still, the be...

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Beautiful morning at the Hangzhou Botanical Garden.

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A close-up of the Cao Quan bei 曹全碑 inscription, a rubbing of which hangs in our Faculty building. Beautiful characters!

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Had a wonderful time teaching a group of amazing students at the Jishan Shuyuan at Kuaijishan.

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Our workshop on Buddhist Texts and Manuscripts from Dunhuang and Beyond is happening today. 😀

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Fragment of the _Qianziwen_ 千字文 from Dunhuang.

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3 years

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A pair of 4th-century chopsticks discovered by Aurel Stein among the ruins of Loulan.

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Our Crossing Boundaries Conference just ended. It was an exciting and stimulating two days, talking about manuscripts in a multilingual environment. Special thanks to the Eide Center for hosting the event.

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Excited to host tonight Prof. Mei Jianjun of the Needham Research Institute as part of the the Zheda Dongfang luntan 浙大东方论坛:

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The three hares motif on a sealing of a Buddhist cave near Dunhuang. Late 6th to early 7th cent.

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History of the acquisition of the Japanese collection of Dunhuang manuscripts.

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The Japanese collection of DUNHUANG manuscripts

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Lai Guolong presenting at the Crossing Boundaries Conference at the Eide Center in Sarasota, Florida. This has been a wonderful workshop in a stunningly beautiful environment. And we still have another day to go!

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Finding treasures in my own office. An orihon with Japanese calligraphy.

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A video of my talk originally presented at the Lotus sutra conference in December at the British Library.

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Joining fragments of the Lotus sutra - Chinese and Tibetan

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Just saw this at a street-side garage sale in Paris.

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Interview with my PhD student Daniel Sheridan (who will submit his dissertation this summer) about his research, his plans, and his thoughts on learning languages.

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At the Cambridge University Library on a sunny Friday morning.

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Heard about a #Dunhuang gamification workshop from friends in London and just tried the game Digital Library Cave(). Although just a game, this is an exciting direction of not only making learning fun but also giving users a "real" experience of the caves.

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Prof. Xu Jianping and others looking at a manuscript of the Zhouyi at the BnF in Paris.

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Concluding part (No. 5) of the interview with Prof. T.H. Barrett, talking about the University Library, Joseph Needham, Science and Civilisation in China and The Cambridge History of China.

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Thrilled to be back at Kuaijishan, teaching a course on Dunhuang studies.

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Part 2 of interview with Prof. T.H. Barrett on Chinese Studies at Cambridge.

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Getting ready for the Chinese New Year, trying my best to write a single character competently. (This is at the School of Literature, Zhejiang University.)

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Much enjoyed Nathan Hill's talk on the word for 'tiger' in old Chinese, which is now up on YouTube. There is also a bold comment about Chinese writing in the Q&A session.

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Nathan W Hill - The word for 'tiger' in Chinese and other Asian...

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Thrilled to see my paper "Foreign travel writings in Republican China" come out.

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Excited to be part of the Zhejiang University - EFEO Workshop on Dunhuang Studies, held at Maison de l’Asie in Paris. Here we see our host Prof. Costantino Noretti with Prof. Yu Xin.

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Google Translate struggling with the concept of 敦煌遺書 (Dunhuang manuscripts).

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Did not buy the catalogue when the exhibition at the British Library was in progress, but I finally did get a copy.

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The Year of the Rabbit in action - found a 5 pound note on the street during my morning walk.

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Daniel Sheridan giving a talk on Sogdian Christians at the last session of the Dunhuang and the Silk Road Seminars at Cambridge.

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Dr. Flavia Fang just gave a wonderful talk about corpses and the dead at the Needham Research Institute.

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Fascinating discussion with Profs. Meir Shahar and Tim Barrett in my office.

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At the Szabó Ervin Library in Budapest.

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Cherry blossoms at sunrise in front of St. John's College.

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